MAP27: Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls (Ancient Aliens)

MAP27: Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls is the twenty-seventh map of Ancient Aliens. It was designed by Paul DeBruyne (skillsaw) and uses the music track "Garden of Lost Souls," composed by Stuart Rynn (stewboy). The par time is 9:00.

Secrets

 * 1) Pass the saucer on the far western section of the map and jump to the teleporter behind it. You can walk up the neon walkway to claim rockets and a soul sphere. (sector 1480)
 * 2) At the area to the south that requires three keys, from the saucer on the west side (which you can access with either the red key or via the saucer on the east side from the yellow key area), drop down to the north to get medikits and an energy cell pack. (sector 1732)

Bugs
Eight monster closets targeting the yellow key are likely to break in multiplayer and as a result fail to teleport at least half the included monsters (eight), making it impossible to achieve 100% kills. This happens because playing co-op increases the amount of monsters per closet from one to two, with the first monster now blocking the second one from teleporting after it, as these closets lack a looping mechanism to allow the monsters to attempt to teleport again if the teleport destination is temporarily blocked by another actor. While the closets can also fail to function correctly in singleplayer, this is far less likely to happen, as it requires monsters from an earlier ambush in this same area to still be alive and wander over the teleport destinations at the exact time the second ambush is triggered.

Current records
The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:

The data was last verified in its entirety on July 10, 2023.

Things
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:

Trivia

 * The name of the map was based on the.
 * In the comment section under the playthrough of this map on decino's channel, skillsaw shared the following information about this level: